A tech reporter who predicted the end of the so-called “landline” telephone theorizes that she will die before buying another car. “I don’t say that because I am
particularly old or sick, but because I am at the front end of one of the next major secular trends in tech,” Kara Swisher, editor at large for the technology news website Recode,
writes in a New York Times column. “Owning a car will soon be like owning a horse — a quaint hobby, an interesting rarity and a cool thing to take out for a spin on the
weekend.”Read the whole story at The New York Times »
This woman is CLUELESS. Only big congested cities will connect to any of this, but only because they will replace the subway or taxis, with a driverless Uber. The rest of the "Fly-over" part of the country wants no part of it. Except for the milk-toast Millennials, driving a car was a right-of-passage. As i stated many times, I lose connection with my phone , GPS and Sirius radio 10 times on the way to work, and you want to trust millions of bits of informantion per second to a cluster of plastic circuit boards?? Ain't gonna happen.
Car makers are investing billions in a dead end industry.
Just last week there was a Chuck Martin story that said 73% of the population "fear" this technology. It's"the Dumbest Idea of the 21st Century"